well another week in India does seem to have gone fast, as ususal iv spent my days reading and listening to my ipod, and im getting rather sick of the same music over and over! buttt this week i attemptd to learn a little bit more of written hindi. it is REALLY hard to learn. iv memoorised all the vowels, and half the constanats but its so unlike any other language as far as pronountication goes and wel i gues having only ever written in english all my life to le...

welll another week in naggar. the school is as per usual. buttt i did learn a lot this week about culture in india. first of all marriagess. we went to another wedding on mondy but this one was a little different. it was quite large (200 ppl) and the true implications of the caste system came into play. so we went to the third day of the marriage which is the big celebration day, where all the people come and theres music and dancing and singing and lots of food....

WEllll just got back from 4 days in Shimla actally we got back on wed morn, the time we had in shimla was awesome. we bascally went ot the market everyday and i bought 2 new salwaar kameze for only 360R so i was veryimpressed. i also bought a new pair of shoes silver this time and a barrette and yeah just random other crap. ooo i also bought an indian cosmo! on the friday night phillipa celia elyse and i took the bus to shimla and arrived at 545 in the morning h...

OK well here we go again! i wrote the worlds longest blog but due to power cuts it deleted! i just went shopping for jewlry and bought a really cool bracelet for $30 and a elephant necklace for $30 as well. went salwar kameze shopping yesterrday and bought a black and blue stripy and spotty one that im going to get taylored tomrow. well i was sorta sick two weeks ago and so after 2 days of being bored liying in bed i called my gap rep to ask if i could go to a...

ok so its been nearly y3 weeks here and weve already done so much, last night we had a sleepover at the childrens home where celia and philpa are. we had devotion (a service) at 8pm and then devotion at 630 as per usual. then we took the school bus into manali for some much needed internet!this week was hell it was a 6 day school week and due to the lack of directiuon proivded by the teachers we are starting to become a bit overwhelmed by the school. the kids are...